Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-28
TERRITORIAL NEWS

| district attorney at Bismarck by the
| county commissioner.
Friedman & S~chuaeder's organ fac
Tory of Devils Lake was destroyed by
Ere.
Ira w. Dibbell, aged 16, is in Jail at
Mitchell for raping a 11-year-old girl.
At a special election held at Minot
30 majority was in favor OF ineor-
porating as a city under the general
law.
Philip White, in Portland township
near Gary, it is charged, shot William
DAVIS, a young boy who was herdine
cattle.
By directions OF Gen. Ruger, con
formally to requirements from army
and division headquarters, Troops
&c. D, M, and G, Seventh cavalry, will,
on the 25th inst, stand relieved from
duty in the department OF Dakota
and proceed to Fort Riley, Kansas.
d. Hotchkiss. an aged farmer living
near Sioux Falls, was killed by light
ming recently. Elmer Bishop, anoth-
sr farmer living Is miles from the city,
was also struck at nearly the same
time and killed.
The latest railroad rumor is that
the Illinois Central will build into
Sioux Falls this season, and from
there strike out northwest. Madison
expects the road to come up from
Sioux Falls.
Prof. Foster, of the faculty, and Nj.
V. Miller, OF the board of regents of
Brookings college, who are inspecting
Eastern herds for the purpose OF pur.
chasing stock for the college farm,
have had q number OF hogs and cat
tie presented to their notice for the
college. A force of bricklayers, suffi-
cient to lay 30, 600 brick per day, are
az work on the college building.
BY direction of the secretary OF var
the following changes in the stations
OF certain hospital stewards, U. S. A.,
will be made: Hospital Steward Al
anson d. Hauverman will be assigned
to duty at Fort Sully; J. II. Sanborn
to ort Sisseton; August Herbst to
Fort Buiord; ]. E. Minot to Fort
Pembina; Henry Kruegar to Fort
Keogh; w. +. Crosse to Camp Pop
lar River.
The case of Evans, under criminal
indictment, as defaulting treasurer OF
Grant county, the jury brought in a
verdict of not guilty.
The commissioners Of Douglas coun-
ty were at Yankton to retain counsel
in the suit recently brought against the
county by Hon. f. NJ. Goodykoontz
to ecover $500, 900 lost on the fraud
ulent bonds issued under the first or
.%anization of the county.
At Ipswich, fire broke out in
p. Skahens' two-story building. and
IN two hours the Prior house and sta
BILE, Sulley's livery, Ipswich hotel, two
Of Rodman's store buildings, Judge
office were destroyed. Totalloss $780,
900.
At the soldiers reunion at Lake
Madison, fully 5000 people were pres
emit during the encampment and $50
veterans were entered on the roll book.
The veterans organized an associa-
ton for that section of Dakota, EN-.
bracing about a dozen posts of the
g. A. r., and all old soldiers
within certain limits. The roll book
show the largest number OF veterans
present that has attended any reun-
ion in the territory, except the terri
toriai reunion last year at Mitchell.
Adit. Gen. Tyner has secured from
the Chicago & Northwestern and Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul roads a
rate OF one cent per mile for each mile
Travelled by the territorial militia GO
ing to and from its annual encamp-
ment. This was obtained through
the assistance of Col. Bennington, ofthe
railroad commission, and will enable
a brigade encampment, which would
not otherwise have been held, as the
funds appropriated werenot sufficient
to have paid the roads one and one
third fare. The Northern Pacific and
the st. Paul. Minneapolis & Manitoba
have also joined in giving this rate.
The location OF the encampment has
not yet been determined upon.
The Pennington county grand jury
found indictments against Porter
Warner, editor of the Deadwood
Times; Boham 4 Kelly, OF the Dead
wood Pioneer; Thomas ii. White,
mining engineer and correspondent OF
the New York Mining Record and Lon
don News, charging them with crimi-
nal libel in pronouncing the Big Bend
Hydraulic Mining company a fraud.
The Beadle County Agricultural
society fixed September 81, % and 23
for their annual fair.
A surveying party snow in the field
completing the survey of the line OF
The Abbottsford & Merrill Railroad
company.
a test OF milk sold in Milwaukee is
being made by the health department.
Prof. A. S. Michel, assistant chemist
The analyZer. OF twelve samples
shus far examined. four contained less
han 2 1-2 per rent OF fat, which is
about the average for swill milk.
The board of county commissioners
Of Brown county increased the assess
ed valuation OF Aberdeen's city prop.
ertv $50 per cent. or from S677, 22O
TO $1,6S6,450. ALI other portions
were increased from 80 to 100 per
cent. The total equalization valua-
ton is S7,162. T63.
Bon Homme county has 40 ex-un.
ion soldiers who draw $3.50 each
month in pensions.
A Irvine famine is reported in sever
nj places.
Deadwood Pioneer: BY the cavinc
Of a large block of porphyry in the
165 foot level of the Iron Hill some
immensely rich ore was exposed. A
specimen weighing several pounds was
exhibited recently which went from
$4,000 to $4,000 per ton. OF
course how much there is of it is not
known.
At Canton, a three-year-old boy oil
Frank X. Aikens, member of the last
Dakota legislature, fell into a tub OF
boiling hot wateril d died in a few
hours.
w. NJ. Evans, e~x-treasurer of Grant
county, has been acquitted OF the
charges made against him.
At Grafton. Miss Olive Sanborn,
daughter of County Commissioners
Sanborn, became the heroine of adar.
ing adventure. While waiting on Hill
avenue, directly in front OF the post.
| office q. team of horses nttachnd 10 q